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Improved ‘feel’ behind Avisail’s recent tear
- Updated: August 6, 2016
CHICAGO — The countless hours of work with and by White Sox right fielder Avisail Garcia already have been executed and well documented.
There have been changes made to the swing and offensive approach of a player pegged as a five-tool talent when he was acquired from Detroit in a three-team deal back in 2013. But this recent hot stretch for the 25-year-old Garcia, who has a .303 average with three doubles, four home runs, eight RBIs, four walks and eight runs in his last 13 games, is all about him just going out and playing.
“Try to find a feel. Hitting is a feel,” hitting coach Todd Steverson said. “And I never wanted his feeling to be my feeling or anybody else’s feeling. The search was for him to find his own feeling. And in my opinion, he’s starting to find his own feeling through talks and work and stuff like that.
“It comes to a point in everybody’s career where you have to throw the book down and say, ‘All right. I know what I can do. I know what I need to do. I just need to feel it.’ But to go out and feel it, you have to go out and …
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